"[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.
Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.
~ Charlotte Brontë ~
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Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.
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"I stood lonely enough, but to that feeling of isolation I was accustomed: it did not oppress me much.
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"Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
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"God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe, in my heart, we were intended to prize life...
"Existence was never originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me among the re...
"No man likes to acknowledge that he has made a mistake in the choice of his profession, and every man, worthy of the name, will row long against wind ...
"Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
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